MI Progress Weighed Down by Rising BMI

Kudos, fatsos.

Expanding waistlines are holding back progress in reducing the rate of MI, researchers found.
In a cohort of British civil servants, the rate of fatal and nonfatal MI fell by 74% (95% CI 48% to 87%) from 1985 to 2004, Sarah Hardoon, MSc, of University College London, and colleagues reported online in the European Heart Journal.

More than half of that progress (56%) was accounted for by population-wide improvements in non-HDL and HDL cholesterol levels, systolic blood pressure, smoking prevalence, and consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Increasing body mass index over the same time period, however, reduced the magnitude of the decline in MI rates.

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